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It’s easy to find a fine 2-in-1 Chromebook if you’ve got the bucks. Our Editors’ Choice, the detachable HP Chromebook x2, is $ 599.99. Among more affordable convertibles, the Acer Chromebook Spin 11 and Asus Chromebook Flip C213SA are $ 399.99 and $ 349, respectively. But if you’re looking for a model that can fold […]

GettyRosette Pambakian. Tinder has fired its vice president of marketing and communications, Rosette Pambakian, and a “number” of other employees who participated in a $ 2 billion lawsuit against the dating app’s owners, according to a report by The Verge. Tinder employees involved in the lawsuit, including Pambakian, had been put on leave back in […]

Enlarge It’s once again that special time of year when we give you a chance to do well by doing good. That’s right—it’s time for the 2018 edition of our annual Charity Drive. Every year since 2007, we’ve been actively encouraging readers to give to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play charity, which provides toys and games […]

Twitter has finally delivered on its promise to give users more control over their timeline. An update released on Tuesday for iOS (coming soon to Android) lets you switch between an algorithm-generated timeline or, as some people like to have it, a timeline that shows the most recent tweets first. It’s really simple to switch […]

[embedded content] Worried about corrupt memory cards and lost photos? Cambuddy Plus uses 4G and Wi-Fi to automatically backup images to the cloud while shooting, along with serving as a wireless teether, GPS, and remote controller. Wi-Fi add-ons allow cameras without connectivity the option to connect to a smart device, but with most new models […]

Enlarge / The iPhone XR. Samuel Axon Apple released a new version of iOS yesterday, and the public notes this time apply just to iPhones. Labeled iOS 12.1.2, it arrives just two weeks after 12.1.1 hit, and primarily, it fixes a couple of bugs. Both bugs are related to cellular connectivity and apply only to […]

Previous Next Mixed reality technology often requires an additional headset and either a compatible smartphone or a powerful PC to run it. The ZSpace laptop, aimed at students, educators, and healthcare providers, brings augmented and virtual reality to the user through a mix of specialized 3D screen technology and lightweight glasses, making mixed reality content […]

Supported by the Shift Russian Trolls Came for Instagram, Too A look at posts from the Internet Research Agency reveals that the group used Instagram for several distinct purposes. By Kevin Roose Dec. 18, 2018 In the wake of the 2016 election, Instagram — known as the home of preening influencers, artfully arranged grain bowls […]

[embedded content] It doesn’t matter if you do it slowly and carefully or rip it off in one go, pulling off Band-Aids still really, really sucks. But that could be about to change. Well, if a piece of research from Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and China’s Xi’an Jiaotong University comes […]

Previous Next What features make a gaming monitor? If the answers are a lighting-fast 144Hz display panel, aggressive styling, and RGB lights galore, then ViewSonic may have nailed it with the XG240R. Aimed at the PC gaming market, ViewSonic’s latest 24-inch display brings a 1080p display to the table with a 144Hz refresh rate and […]

[embedded content] After selling the first artificial intelligence generated artwork earlier this year, deep learning algorithms are now tackling portraits — of made-up people that don’t exist. In a research paper, Nvidia recently shared the results of a generative adversarial network (GAN) trained to generate images of people while unsupervised. The concept is based in […]

Enlarge Google Have you ever been to a website where the back button just doesn’t work? In these instances, you press “back” to go back but instead you just end up at the same page where you started. A new commit on the Chromium source (first spotted by 9to5Google) outlines a plan to stop weird […]

Hackers aren’t just posting spammy-looking Facebook comments in support of their favorite YouTuber anymore. It’s come to this: A YouTube subscription rivalry has resulted in not one, but two recent incidents of mass security breaches, resulting in the hacking of thousands of printers worldwide. According to TechRadar, both incidents involved hacking thousands of printers to […]

Russia used every major social media platform to try to influence the 2016 US election, a report claims. New research says YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram and PayPal – as well as Facebook and Twitter – were leveraged to spread propaganda. The report, released today by the US Senate, exposes the scale of Russian disinformation efforts. Its […]